Kumar, Sekhar dominate 470 class

Praveen Kumar and Sudhanshu Sekhar cruised to victories winning all the four races in the 470 class category on the opening day of the Festival of Sails regatta here today.

Both Kumar and Sekhar showed great teamwork and excellent skills as they outsmarted the rest of the field to take the top honours in fine weather and good wind conditions, for sailing off the Mumbai Harbour.

In the Enterprise class, S S Yadav and Rahul Yadav combined nicely to cross the line to bag the top honours for the first three races, while D K Rajak and K Arumugam won online in the fourth race.

Another sailor who dominated his event was Rahul Chaudhary, who won all four races in Bic Nova surfboards category.

Meanwhile, the Laser Standard event saw line honours going to Avinash Yadav in the first race, Ajay Singh Rajput in the second and fourth races and Ramakant Tiwari in the third race.

In the Laser Radial class, Ramya Sarvanan won the line honours in first, third and fourth race while Vivin Vinil won it in the second race.

In the Optimist class, Advait Menon won the first, second and fourth race while Rhea Bhasin won the third race.

Ten regatta, conducted by the Indian Naval Watermanship Training Centre (INWTC) along with the Royal Bombay Yacht (RBYC) and promoted by the Sailing Association of Maharashtra (SAM), concludes on March 25.